CP1919 as a Leather Wrist Band - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar
I bet we have some blog readers that have always been fascinated by Joy Divisions 1979 album Unknown Pleasures. The cover features this amazing looking martian landscape which turns out to be a plot of a
pulsar ( CP 1919 ). Pulsars form when stars collapse during their supernova process forming a dense neutron star. They spin and put out all frequencies of light. This one had a period of about 3 seconds
between pulses (each line on the graph). This pulsar transmission was picked up in 1967. It was the first and was even thought to be a message from little green men due to it's pulse regularity.
A fitting album cover for a band whose lead singer would hang himself two years later (dying star).
Anyway...I made a bracelet of it.
2 comments:
Where did you get the 3D data for the plot? This could be cool for a 3d print :)
It is 2D from a JPG of the album cover. I just added a third dimension for the cutting depth.
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